<p>Hot dang! Back from the pool with a Wendy’s Frostie in hand, and cottonwood has served up cherries, strawberries, and ice cream! </p>
<p>Life is good!</p>
<p>Welcome, bblfraser! I think quite a few of us can relate to that feeling of intimidation. Will your daughter be starting her junior or senior year this fall?</p>
<p>I was just going to ask that, so I won’t repeat it, but I will repeat the welcome, bblfraser. There really are a lot of nice, balanced folks on the parent forum.</p>
<p>owl…the “mommy school” is mythmon’s invention. I love it and not surprisingly my over protective H does too. The only discussion about colllege choice my h has taken an interest in is the one where I told him about the idea and that he could have a “Daddy School” too. No Surprise he already has his “Daddy School” picked. Based on nothing other than proximity to home. </p>
<p>Gotta Go TwinK just gort home from a week at camp!!! Yipeeeeee</p>
<p>Thanks, historymom! I’d take that stuff that supposed to improve memory, if only I could remember what it’s called. Yes, that sounds like a mythmom thing! </p>
<p>Your H’s Dad’s Choice is not going to look too welcoming if the only thing going for it (in his eyes) is proximity. I know for my kid, proximity to home would automatically rule it out!</p>
<p>historymom, you are so right, that’s a mythmom thing. Welcome home to Twin K! And owlice, welcome back from the pool.</p>
<p>Ha owlice, my daughter doesn’t want to leave home. She’s got a 200 mile radius drawn around the house and doesn’t want to look outside of it (except UChicago).</p>
<p>QM, I was thinking of starting another thread on that very topic. So often on here I read about kids who want to go OOS, anywhere but home, but my son wants to stick close. I don’t mind that, but I hate that he’s limiting himself so!</p>
<p>It might be a good one for a thread, Youdon’tsay. </p>
<p>I was very happy that D wanted a three-hour radius (and it turned out to be a vastly appreciated thing, when she broke her nose fall of her first year!). But now I’ve got S1 coming along, who isn’t exactly saying that he’s dying to go far away, but on the other hand, he’s not drawing any circles, either.</p>
<p>QM, that’s actually encouraging, if she’s already got one school she’s willing to bend the distance-rule for.</p>
<p>Yeah, she’s only got 2 schools. Barnard, which is her first choice and within the circle and UChicago, which is her second choice and only on her list because my husband and I both went there an loved it. That’s it. No other schools. She says if she doesn’t get in there, she will go to the state school and commute.</p>
<p>Barnard, eh? Well, speaking of mythmom. . . . </p>
<p>Mythmom, where are you? Can you come share your wealth of Barnard knowledge and enthusiasm with Queen’s Mom?</p>
<p>Queensmom,
Emphasize to your D that a safety is a must – especially if you will be applying for financial aid. My daughter got into Northwestern, but even with a generous financial aid offer, we’d still be in for 22K out of pocket each year. We prayed a lot, but it just didn’t seem to make sense for her to start grad school already in debt for 88K.
Even if you have no need for financial aid, she should consider at least one other mid range school. I’m sure if you’re reading CC, you know that the competition is really rough out there.</p>
<p>Texasmama, I still have a year to beat some sense into her head.</p>
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<p>You apply to them secretly in her name, forging her signature if necessary. ;)</p>
<p>Welcome to cc, bblfraser! It’s true that there are a lot of nice folks here, though you might want to avoid the threads about politics in the parents cafe! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>H and I are going out for dinner later, but maybe a little bowl of that ice cream would help hold me over till then.</p>
<p>Back…Twin K had a blast! Good to have her home. Harriet hope your ex Kindergartener enjoyed his day…Did you save his end of the year award and certificate for his future college admissions scrapbook? </p>
<p>Anyway Queen"sMom I know what you mean about the shock of learning that the child you thought was a great student is ehhemmm below CC standards. My best advice is to pay attention to the reasonable parents…pm them if that is your preference…and take the rest with a grain of salt. </p>
<p>I am going to go revive the class of 09 thread because I think we can all profit from knowing who else is in the same parental boat. See you over there.</p>
<p>Speaking of kids and grades… S had a very rough fall (it was his senior year). He had 1 A, 1 B, and 3 C’s (one later got changed to an A when he begged for mercy on having turned in a paper late). H and I pitched a fit and told him that level of work was unacceptable. And for him, it was. I should add that 4 of the classes were dual-credit at a cc and one was online (he is home schooled). So we reminded him that the cc was not exactly Harvard and he would need to bring a bit more effort to his work. </p>
<p>I was really sweating whether he’d get into any of his colleges and even made him add a safety that would accept him automatically based on his SAT score. Well, he was accepted to 4 of his schools and rejected by 1.</p>
<p>In the meantime, H and I told S over Christmas break that if he made any C’s during the spring semester, he would have to pay for his own room & board for the fall. He had an ROTC scholarship which would pay for tuition & fees. He was furious and accused us of being “Asian parents” (my apologies to the Asian parents reading this!). The reason we did this was to light a fire under him with a bit of fear so that he’d work harder.</p>
<p>It didn’t work. He is quite the little procrastinator and continued in his wicked ways. We limited his classes to 4 for the spring semester. In his dual-credit classes, he made one A and two B’s. We have been waiting and waiting for the grade on his online AP English Lit course. He actually had a C- in that one at mid-term. H, who is even harder core than me, said that S had to not just make a B in English for the spring, but he had to pull his final grade up to a B. Ouch!</p>
<p>So, I have been wringing my hands about this, worrying about the family blow up to come. And what should I do? Should I try to talk H into backing down? But if I did, S would never believe another thing we said. But if had to pay, it would be $6K for room & board for one semester! S doesn’t have that, so then what would happen? Oh, my…oh, my.</p>
<p>Today S calls me to say, “Guess what, Mom? I made a B+ in English! The teacher loved my research paper!”</p>
<p>Family crisis averted. Big, deep sigh…pass me some more ice cream.</p>
<p>Hmm…I’m a student, not a parent, but I make pretty awesome cheesecake brownies that I thought you guy might enjoy. (And I’m super intimidated by all the crazy ivy hopefuls with perfect everything so you guys sound more like my forte.)</p>
<p>^^^ Wonderful! I’ll have some of the cheesecake brownies with my ice cream!</p>
<p>pass those cheesecake brownies this way</p>
<p>Timely, really good your son got the grade he needed otherwise that would have been a hard decision to make. As a student (only just finished sophomore year at that so I’m very unknowledgable), it’s really difficult to be told that you should be working harder when you think you are working hard enough, even if you’re not. I got my report card today and there were all a’s other than grades on finals. I got a b on three finals and my parents were furious. I still have a 4.0, still am first in my class, but do my parents care? Nope.</p>
<p>So, yes, as long as you parents don’t mind my intruding, I’d love if someone would share the ice cream. :)</p>